September - December, 2018 Vol. 4 No. 12 ISSN NO:2141-9590 Snippets on NBTE National Assembly Education Board Chairman Prof. Modupe Adelabu Committees on Oversight Visits to NBTE Executive Secretary Dr. Masa'udu A. Kazaure, mni he Senate Committee NBTE Vision and Mission on Tertiary Vision Education & To be a world class regulatory body TE T F u n d a n d i t s for the promotion of Technical and Vocational Education and Training counterpart, House of in Nigeria R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s Mission Committee on Tertiary To promote the production of skilled Education & Services technical and professional manpower for the development and were at the National sustenance of the national economy Board for Technical Education (NBTE) in Sen. Barau Jibril, Chairman Hon. Aminu Suleiman, Chairman Core Mandate Senate Committee on Tertiary House Committee on Tertiary To coordinate all aspects of Kaduna on separate Education and TETFund Education and Services Technical and Vocational Education visits to carry out their falling outside university education statutory oversight NBTE Statutes function at the Board. · NBTE enabling Act No. 9 of 11th January, 1977 T h e H o u s e o f Representatives team · Education (National Minimum which visited the Board Standard and Establishment of th Institution Act No. 16 of August on 5 November, 2018 1985 w a s l e d b y t h e and Act No. 9 of 1993 Committee's Chairman, No. of Institutions under NBTE R t . H o n o u r a b l e Purview §Polytechnics 123 S u l e i m a n A m i n u . Honourable Aminu said §Colleges of Agriculture 34 Hon. Aminu Suleiman, Chairman House Committee on Tertiary the Committee was in Education and Services (left) and his team being welcomed by ES NBTE (right). §Colleges of Health Sciences 38 Kaduna to access the 2018 budget Honourable Aminu however performance of the Board. decried the delay in the release of §Specialized Institutions 27 He commended NBTE for the prudent allocated funds for capital projects §Innovation Enterprise Institutions management of the little fund released to and other running costs that would (IEIs) 153 it and urged the Board to continue in this have enabled the Board impact on §Vocational Enterprise manner in line with the policy trust of the the lives of Nigerians. Institutions(VEIs) 82 President Buhari's administration on According to him, “What we had on § Technical Colleges 118 prudent and transparent management of our table at the National Assembly Total: 577 resources. Cont. on Page 2 Editorial Committee: Suleiman S. Gwarzo (Chairman), Lawal Y. Hafiz, Chima A. Ejiofor, Ansa O. Ndem, Esther Damisa, Fatima Abubakar, Nafisa Abba (Members), Jacob A. Abang (Editor/Secretary), Aliyu I. Hassan (Graphics) Abdullahi Isah (Cameraman) website: www.nbte.gov.ng, All enquiries to: [email protected] ...Education Committees on Oversight Visits to NBTE Cont’d from front page was a budget performance of 30 and 35 per cent in most government agencies, but what we have seen here and in other agencies was not more than 20 to 25 per cent”. The law maker said the situation was disturbing especially as the year 2018 was getting to an end, stating that people have not felt the impact of the budget due to delay in the release of funds to implement g o v e r n m e n t p o l i c i e s a n d programmes. Sen. Barau Jibrin, Chairman Senate Committee on Tertiary Education (1st left) and He gave the assurance that the TETFund with some members of NBTE management during the oversight visit National Assembly will ensure that necessary steps are taken to address the ugly trend. In the same vein, the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund has commended the NBTE Board and Management for ensuring accountability and transparency in the management of the affairs of the Board. The commendation was given by the Chairman, Sen. Barau Jibrin when he led a delegation of the Committee on an oversight visit to Senator Bara’u Jibrin (left) and Director Physical Planning and Development, Tpl the Board. Ekpenyong E. Ekpenyong (right) during the Senate’s oversight visit to the Board. Sen Barau said the visit to the Board was in line with the statutory role of the Senate and the mandate of the Committee to carry out oversight function and see things for themselves. He said that they were impressed with the Board for its transparency and urged that they continue in line with the current government's policy on transparency and accountability in management of government resources. He Hon Aminu Suleiman, Chairman House Committee on Tertiary Education and Services r e i t e r a t e d t h e F e d e r a l (left) and ES NBTE, Dr M. A. Kazaure (right) during the visit Government's commitment expressed concern on the issue of Ekpenyong during the Senate towards increasing funding to the delay in release of funds and Committee's visit, said that the main education sector and providing shortage of funding which he said is goal of the Board is to ensure quality quality education to Nigerians undermining the quality of technical education in the country particularly in the area of technical technical education in the country. t h r o u g h q u a l i t y t e a c h i n g , education. The Executive Secretary who was assessment and certification. In his response, the Executive represented by the Director Secretary of the Board, Dr. He said for technical education to be P h y s i c a l P l a n n i n g a n d Masa'udu Adamu Kazaure relevant, employers must be Development, Tpl Ekpenyong E. Cont. on Page 3 Page 2 Board Decries Spade of Conversion of Colleges of Agric to Polytechnics v i s i t e d w a s he National Board for recommended for Technical Education approval of the T(NBTE) has decried the Hon. Minister of incessant conversion of Colleges of Education while Agriculture to Polytechnics by t h r e e w e r e some State Governments and r e q u e s t e d t o vowed to put an end to the r e m e d y s o m e development. i d e n t i f i e d In a press briefing at the end of the nd deficiencies. 82 Regular Meeting of the NBTE The Governing Governing Board in Kaduna, the Board commended Executive Secretary of the Board, the effort of the Dr. Masa'udu Adamu Kazaure who read the meeting's resolutions, said K a d u n a S t a t e that a total of 41 polytechnics were Commissioner for visited between June and H e a l t h f o r September, 2018, where 191 expressing his programmes were granted full concern to the accreditation and 48 interim Board over illegal accreditation out of the 239 Health Institutions Prof Modupe Adelabu NBTE Board Chairman programmes visited. operating in the The meeting which was held on the State. It also approved the signing clamp down on unapproved private 4th, October, 2018 and chaired by o f a M e m o r a n d u m o f Health Institutions springing up t h e B o a r d ' s C h a i r p e r s o n , Understanding (MoU) with the across the country. Prof.(Mrs.) Modupe Adelabu also Environmental Health Officers The Executive Secretary added that noted that 117 programmes were Registration Council of Nigeria the Governing Board has resolved to visited on Resource Inspection out (EHORECON) in order to reduce organize a stakeholders meeting of which 94 were granted interim with relevant ministries and the burden of duplication of quality accreditation to commence while stakeholders in order to end the 23 were denied accreditation. One assurance activities undertaken by proliferation of illegal technical private polytechnic out of the four the two regulatory bodies as well as institutions across the country. ...Education Committees on Oversight Visits to NBTE Cont’d from page 2 t h r o u g h q u a l i t y t e a c h i n g , through teaching, assessment and confident that their employees assessment and certification is qualifications, stressing that all receive quality training and acquire maintained. He called for increased learning programmes, including the needed capacity to produce funding of the sector and timely a p p r e n t i c e s h i p s , m u s t b e quality desirable manpower. release of funds to enable the Board underpinned by teaching, learning Earlier in his briefing during the build the technical, creative and and assessment that are good. House Committee's visit, the innovative skills needed in He added that employers must be NBTE Executive Secretary, Dr. developing the nation. confident that their future Masa'udu A. Kazaure stated that Speaking further, Dr. Kazaure employees receive good quality training and assessment so that they the Board was making every effort stated that the challenge of have a solid foundation of skills that technical and vocational education in ensuring that quality and they can build on as they progress and training (TVET) in Nigeria is to relevance of technical and through their careers. vocational education in Nigeria ensure quality and relevance Page 3 NBTE Executive Secretary Meets Chairmen and Rectors of State Polytechnics he Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical TEducation (NBTE) Dr.